With 97 seats out of 126, the Labour Group on Durham County Council is now the largest in the country.
Why, then, should it have any wish or willingness to see money or powers transferred to one or more city regions, or to a region dominated by certain conurbations? Those places are most unreliable from Labour's point of view.
Send more money and more powers to County Hall, Durham.
Send more money and more powers to County Hall, Durham.
The soul of the Labour Movement is not somewhere that was Tory long after much of England and an even higher proportion of Wales, and which has now elected the SNP twice in a row.
Any more than than the soul of the Labour Movement is a metropolis that was Tory long after most of the North and an even higher proportion of Wales, and which has now elected Boris Johnson twice in a row.
As for the newly vacant Leadership of the Scottish Labour Party, Gordon Brown should come on television and announce that he was not merely seeking the office, but in both senses assuming it.
Only Gordon Brown could get away with that.
But he is Gordon Brown.
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